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Rev Benjamin Wadsworth

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Rev Benjamin Wadsworth

Birth
Milton, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Death
12 Mar 1737 (aged 67)
Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
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Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA Add to Map
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PRESIDENT BENJAMIN WADSWORTH, A.M., b. Milton, Feb. 28, 1669/70, son of Capt. Samuel and Abigail (Lindall) Wadsworth; H.C., 1690, A.B., A.M.; Fellow, H.C., 1697-1707; 1712-1725; Ord. Boston, (1st Chh.), Sept. 8, 1696; sett. Boston, 1693-1725; dism. June 16, 1725; inst. President, H.C., July 7, 1725; served as President, 1725-1736; Artillery Election Sermon, 1700; Election Sermon, 1716; d. Cambridge, Mar. 12, 1736/7, a. 76. (Weis, F.L., The Colonial Clergy and Colonial Churches of New England)
PRESIDENT BENJAMIN WADSWORTH, A.M., b. Milton, Feb. 28, 1669/70, son of Capt. Samuel and Abigail (Lindall) Wadsworth; H.C., 1690, A.B., A.M.; Fellow, H.C., 1697-1707; 1712-1725; Ord. Boston, (1st Chh.), Sept. 8, 1696; sett. Boston, 1693-1725; dism. June 16, 1725; inst. President, H.C., July 7, 1725; served as President, 1725-1736; Artillery Election Sermon, 1700; Election Sermon, 1716; d. Cambridge, Mar. 12, 1736/7, a. 76. (Weis, F.L., The Colonial Clergy and Colonial Churches of New England)

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Sub hoc Marmore concilium est Corpus
Viri admodum Reverendi D. Benjamin
Wadsworth nuper Collegii Harvardini
Praesidis lectissimi; olim primae Ecclesiae
apud Bostonienses Pastoris fidelissimi. Qui
Scientia tam Divina, quam Humana, Pietate
& Charitate, Prudentia & Humilitate, Pati
-entia & Fortitudine, Diligentia & Fidelitate
prae plurimis claruit, imo et harum omnium
Virtutum Exemplar edidit vividum ac
illustrissimum. Quiq postquam munere
Pastoris Ecclesiae per spatium triginta
circiter Annorum ; et deinde Praesidis
Academiae Annos quasi duodecim fideli
-ter perfunctus fuerat, Spe Beatae resur
-rectionis, et Solamine Verborum Apostoli
I. Pet. I. 3. ad 10. ex Corde atque Ore ema
-nantium obiit in Domino die Martii de
-cimo sexto, Anno MDCCXXXVII.
AEt. 68.
Pretiosa est Oculis Domini, Mors Sanctorum.

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